Born This Way? Ideologies of eros in Plato’s Symposium Journal Prompt Does Plato's Symposium seem to validate or to undercut Foucault and/or Halperin Discussion the aristoph myth implies an essentialist view of sexuality they all have different views male biased heavenly – nothing female earthly aphrod 2013-09-26 Ancient Sexuality and Gender 3 Agenda Writer’s Corner … Name That Mistake Recap and Update Sexual “Codes” & Sexualities in Aeschines and Plato 2013-09-26 Ancient Sexuality and Gender 4 Writer’s Corner … Name That Mistake Plagiarism! wordy ital The Ancient Grecian play Medea caused a tremendous stir when it was first performed. The evil that I do, I understand full well, But a passion drives me greater than my will. dropped quote, MLA citation issues unsubstantiated claim Recap and Update Sexual “Codes” & Sexualities in Aeschines and Plato Is ____ gay? Misgolas “He is bent on that sort of thing [pederasty] like one possessed, and is accustomed always to have about him [male] singers or cithara-players” (41) Timarchus “Timarchus was … just the person for the thing that Misgolas wanted to do, and Timarchus wanted to have done.” (41) “What shall we say when a young man … keeps the most expensive flutegirls and harlots? When he gambles and pays nothing himself but another man always pays for him?” (75) Plato’s Symposium … Symposium: Erotic Dichotomies male Uranian (“Heavenly”) spiritual male-pederastic female Pandemian (“Vulgar”) carnal “other” (lesbian, heteroerotic) temperate intemperate asymmetrical symmetrical Symposium: Interlocking Arguments Speaker Phaedrus Pausanias Eryximachus Aristophanes Agathon Socrates Alcibiades Speech Eros the Ancient the two loves [ditto] “my other half” Eros the Youthful Eros the daimōn Socrates’ temperate intemperance Erotic Law Codes? (Pausanias’ Speech) Nomos = “Law” “Convention” “Law Codes” Elsewhere Elis, Boeotia Ionia “Here” 2013-09-26 Ancient Sexuality and Gender 16 Aristophanes’ Myth Essentialist or Constructionist? Is Diotimian erōs Pederasty? And is it honorable?